Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 : Heritage Books : 9780788414688 : 0788414682 : 11 Feb 2013 : If stories of westward exploration stir up your imagination, you will enjoy these accounts of the travels of naturalist John Bradbury and others. Bradbury traveled from St. Louis to the Arikara Indian villages, some eighteen hundred miles above the mouth of the Missouri. From there he accompanied Ramsay Crooks to the fur-trading station among the Mandan, two hundred miles farther up river. His observations and experiences among the Native American tribes (both friendly and otherwise) are colorful and informative, as are his wondrous descriptions of rivers and natural features, settlements, fortifications, Canadian boatmen, war parties, narrow escapes from wild animals, buffalo herds and the buffalo hunt, fossil bones, a medicine man, a tremendous thunder storm, and much more, including an amazing recounting of the massive New Madrid earthquake. Although Lewis and Clark had returned from their